Spring 2027

Interactive Cartography & Geovisualization

Examines user interface design for manipulating maps, focusing on Interactive Cartography, Geographic Visualization, and Geovisual Analytics with insights from HCI and Usability Engineering.

offering recorded4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Robert Roth4.1/5

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.66 GPA, 86.4% A/AB (n=22 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Design interactive maps by applying the principles of user experience and user interface design; interface complexity, constraint, flexibility, and freedom; user- and technology-based constraints on UI/UX design; interaction operators; non-map visualization techniques; direct and indirect map-based interface styles; coordinated big data visualization and interactive highlighting techniques.

  • Develop interactive maps that follow and deviate from a cartographic workflow using relevant coding languages.

  • Plan and execute a user-centered design process from needs assessment to transition

  • Acquire and prepare geographic datasets.

  • Design within user-defined and technology-defined functional constraints while evaluating and improving prototypes and application releases

  • Use online collaboration tools in small groups

  • Construct spatiotemporal and multivariate visualizations using contemporary cartographic software.

  • Place design principles within the contemporary cartographic literature.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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GEOG 370, 378, or graduate/professional standing

GEOG 575 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027

Robert Roth

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.74 GPA, 90.5% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.65 GPA, 82.6% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=21 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ROBERT ROTH is recorded teaching in Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 420
LAB 301Classroom Instruction0 / 210
LAB 302Classroom Instruction0 / 210

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.66 GPA, 86.4% A/AB (n=22 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Interactive Cartography, Geographic Visualization, and Geovisual Analytics
  • Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, and Usability Engineering
  • UI/UX design constraints, interaction operators, and map-based interface styles

Skills

  • Design interactive maps using UX/UI principles, including handling interface complexity, constraints, and interaction operators.
  • Develop interactive maps using relevant coding languages within or deviating from standard cartographic workflows.
  • Plan and execute user-centered design processes from needs assessment through transition.
  • Construct spatiotemporal and multivariate visualizations using contemporary cartographic software.

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GEOG 575 · Spring 2027

Interactive Cartography & Geovisualization

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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